A Good Reason to Teach more Environmental Education

The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) commissioned a groundbreaking national study to measure environmental behavior and attitudes. The results provide NEEF a baseline for its vision that by 2022,
300 million Americans actively use environmental knowledge to ensure the well-being of the earth and its people.

Survey highlights include:

• Six out of ten American adults take some sort of action when learning about the environmental issues facing the world.
• 61% of adults visited a park or nature center in the last 12 months.
• 52% of adults consider zoos, nature centers and parks as trustworthy sources of information for environmental problems and issues.
• 77% of adults turn the lights off when leaving a room.
• 9% of adults compost.
• 59% of adults consider an environmentally conscious lifestyle a lot of work.

The research surveyed 1,500 individuals between 18 and 74 years of age with demographics in balance with the U.S. Census.